Author: Zach Barbieri

EA has announced it will shut down the live-service game Anthem on January 12, 2026. Due to the nature of the game being always online, this will render the BioWare-developed title unplayable after that point, with no plans to create an offline experience for players who have purchased the game being planned at this point. This is in contrast to games like Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League that did update their titles shortly after the announcement they would end to allow for the continued use of the title through an offline play mode. Premium in-game currency has stopped being…

Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has been heavily impacted by the layoffs that have been announced at Microsoft this week, impacting every global sector of the company. According to a former employee, these have resulted in the series being and their development team being greatly diminished. Former Forza Motorsport Content Coordinator Fred Russell has said that the franchise’s team is “No more,” with the remaining members of the Turn 10 Studio, a Washington-based studio, now focusing on supporting the franchise’s spin-off series, Forza Horizon which is developed by British studio Playground Games, which has become more popular in recent…

This guide contains spoilers for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. So you finally made your way over to West Fort Knox in Australia in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, and you’re ready to call it a day, link up with the city with the rest of the Chiral Network, get a private room, and sleep the road off. Before that, though, you reach the gigantic tar pit outside that you were sent there to investigate, and if you have learned anything up to this point, this much tar can only mean one thing: you are about to get…

Helldivers 2, The Sony-published PVE title from developer Arrowhead, will be dropping on Xbox Series X/S next month, on August 26, 2025, a live stream from the developer has confirmed. Ironically, this will be the same date Gears of War: Reloaded release, which will see the classic Xbox title release on PlayStation for the first time. In a post via Xbox wire, Helldicver 2 Game Director Mikael Eriksson talked about what this release meant to the studio. He said: We know gamers have been asking for this for some time and we are so excited to bring more Helldivers into…

Perfect Dark, a reboot being developed by the Initiative, is one of the many casualties of a new round of layoffs at Microsoft that includes 4% of their global workforce across all of their global divisions. These layoffs are greatly impacting Xbox, with the developer behind Perfect Dark being closed, and several other games, such as Rare’s Everwild, which has spent 11 years in development up to this point, also being canceled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUi9DR9sc4 Perfect Dark was set to be a revival of the long-dormant franchise, which last saw release as an Xbox 360 launch title in 2005 with Perfect Dark…

Fans of the Halo franchise will be getting a tease at what’s next later this year at the Halo World Championship 2025, which will be held on October 24. This news was stated via a blog post from Esports Lead for the Halo franchise, Tahir “Tash” Hasandjekic, suggesting that fans in attendance will find out what Halo Studios has been working on. This venue was used previously by the developer, appearing last year to announce that the formerly named 343 Studios had changed their name to Halo Studios, after the series they had been working on for over a decade.…

11bit Studio, the developers behind the recently released survival/management sci-fi hybrid The Alters, has admitted to using generative AI in their game. This comes after several players took to social media over the weekend to say that several elements featured in the game were AI, with several of the scientific scrawls featured on computers in-game being created that way, with the prompt from the AI still being left in for the final product of the game. https://bsky.app/profile/11bitstudios.bsky.social/post/3lstiwaoxcc2i The studio confirmed on Monday with their own posts to social media that they did indeed include several elements created this way. They,…

Bandai Namco has confirmed that they will be holding a Summer Showcase on July 2, at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET/ 9 PM CEST/ and 4 AM JST. While there is a lot to showcase during this event, the publisher and developer have released a teaser trailer showcasing just some of what players can expect to see when they hold the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFuG1BpViI The biggest announcement during the trailer is that My Hero Academia, the popular anime series, will be receiving a new game. The last title released based on the series was My Hero Ultimate Rumble in 2023, a…

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is a drastic departure from everything that came before in the series. Obviously, this was expected, given the teaser for this game, alongside the Rune Factory 3 remaster announcement, promised that the next Rune Factory would be a new breed of the game. Despite this, there is no way you can anticipate that the series that became a Nintendo Handheld was going to offer such a masterful evolution of the formula. There has never been a Rune Factory that didn’t resonate with me, growing up on Harvest Moon, so this pretty much is my genre,…

Ruffy and the Riverside can take a moment to start getting good. A slow intro that appears to start in the middle of a story, rather than start with the character relaxing before everything goes wrong and they have to spring into action, like the classic Rare titles, the game feels so aptly pays homage to. Even then, you still need to commit to a slight wade through the world before the game sinks its hook into you. If you commit your time, though, it becomes a great example of what Indie titles bring to the party. Ruffy is a…